Does anyone know the names of the two atomic bombs or if they had names at all?

Answer 1

Fat Man and Little Boy are the more famous....then there was the Soviet Tsar Bomba weighing in at a hefty 50 megatons and was capable of 100 megaton yield (60's) (0r 5,000 times the size of the 20 kiloton Little Boy/Fat Man yield)

Then there was "Mike", an H-bomb that vaporised Enewetak atoll in 1953 (or was it 1952?).

Then there was the Davy Crockett, a W54 warhead deployed in the late 50's.

The ol "Peacekeeper" or MX mervs...nasty buggers. (Yield of W87 warhead is listed as 500 kilotons in "LGM-188 Peacekeeper)

Variants of the gravity bombs (B53, B61, B83)

Tomahawk TLAM-N SLCM (BGM-109A)

The current Minute Man III's.

The first strike Trident II's (currently the D-5 models)...global suicide in 4 minutes.

Answer 2

I read a lot of history, especially Stephen Ambrose. From what I gathered, after the first bomb was dropped, the Imperial High Command was begging, literally on their knees, before the Emperor to allow them to continue fighting. It was the second one that convinced the Emperor to throw in the towel. An invasion of the Japanese mainland would have been a bloodbath. Not just for Americans. But for the Japanese as well. If you look at what happened during Okinawa, it is easy to see that. Some people say that the Japanese where ready to surrender and the attack was not necessary. All indications are that if the Japanese were ready to surrender (which I believe they were not), the Americans did not know about it. The choice of target is a little suspect. While Hiroshima was a garrison town, headquarters for an army group, it had a very high civilian population. The decision to chose it as a target was the high mountains surrounding it, which would both limit the force to the city itself and also magnify the still rather questionable destructive power. All in all, war is the embodiment of evil in a fallen and sinful world. Unfortunately, it sometimes is necessary to fight them. And in doing so, we often dehumanize each other. This happened in WWII as it did in every conflict before and since. Was dropping the bomb the right decision? I think Truman wondered that for a long time, but in the end he thought so.

Answer 3

The other answers are correct, but let me expand a little.

The Hiroshima bomb was known as "Little Boy," and was a uranium bomb, used because the scientists had no doubt it would work. Essentially it was two chunks of refined uranium in a naval gun barrel which achieved critical mass when forced together by an explosive charge.

The more complex Plutonium bomb used at Nagasaki was known as "Fat Man." It was essentially a shielded round structure comprised of several pieces of plutonium forced together with a carefully timed explosive charge. It had the potential to make a much larger explosion and was the preferred technology.

The same type bomb was the one tested in New Mexico prior to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is the basic structure used in the majority of nuclear weapons. The uranium bomb, while reliable, has not been widely used.

Answer 4

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America under U.S. President Harry S. Truman. After six months of intense firebombing of 67 other Japanese cities, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed on August 9, 1945 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki.

Answer 5

Fat Man and Little Boy were the two dropped on Japan, but the first one to be detonated was simply called "The Gadget".

Answer 6

Little Boy and Fat Man.

Answer 7

Fatman and Little Boy

Answer 8

Fat man and Little Boy.

Answer 9

Yes......Fat Man and Little Boy.

Answer 10

fat man & little boy